Author: Jaron LanierPublisher: Penguin UKISBN: 0141960884Size: 26.66 MBFormat: PDF, ePub, DocsView: 2366DownloadRead Online
In You Are Not A Gadget, Jaron Lanier, digital guru, and inventor of Virtual Reality, delivers a searing manifesto in support of the human and reflects on the good and bad developments in design and thought twenty years after the invention ...

Author: Hai-Jew, ShalinPublisher: IGI GlobalISBN: 1522526803Size: 43.81 MBFormat: PDFView: 4861DownloadRead Online
Continued Technology-Based Manifesto Year of Origin Author(s) A Brief
Summary 12. Principles of Programming Languages 2007 Robert Harper This
reads like an accidental manifesto drawn from a course description (15-312
Principles of Programming Languages); this argues the importance of knowing
principles because they are foundational to the “design, implementation, and
application of programming languages” (Harper, 2015, p. 1; Harper 2007) 13. You Are Not a Gadget: A ...

Author: Dennis AdamsPublisher: R&L EducationISBN: 1610481186Size: 30.27 MBFormat: PDF, DocsView: 5896DownloadRead Online
Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, writes that robot teachers
are not very sophisticated. And even though robotic surgical devices are more
advanced, they are little more than “high-tech puppetry.” Thinking of interactive
digital devices or computer programs as people is a mistake that leads us into a
bleak space where the unique human attributes of creative thinking, inquiry, and
problem solving are diminished. Even after Google digitizes most books,
arranging it so ...

Author: Hugh McGuirePublisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."ISBN: 1449320384Size: 80.35 MBFormat: PDF, DocsView: 7684DownloadRead Online
My point here isn't about the anti-intellectualism of the democratized marketplace
(though perhaps a book may be written about that; see Jaron Lanier's You AreNot a Gadget!)—my point is that any publisher intending to move to the social
Internet has to make peace with the participatory nature of the medium. On the
Internet, readers and writers are often one and the same, and they will modify
original work. While some see it as infringing copyright, the fans see it as a labour
of love.

Author: Robert BirdPublisher: The New PressISBN: 1595588175Size: 80.59 MBFormat: PDF, MobiView: 6556DownloadRead Online
1 For a recent, popular, and provocative take on such phenomena, see Jaron
Lanier's discussion of the “ideology of violation” that dominates the online world
in You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (New York: Knopf, 2010). 2 The terms “
communist” and “communism” will be used without further definition, though in
general, they refer to the lifestyles of the postwar Soviet Union. For a compelling
articulation of this orientation toward propriety and self-discipline, see the Soviet
Marxist ...